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Texas Ghost
Town
CALLAHAN CITY, TEXAS
Callahan County,
Texas Panhandle / North Central Texas
FM 2228
3 miles S of Interstate 20
4 miles SW of Baird
Population:
0
Area
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History in
a (Burkett) Pecan Shell
The county was established in 1858 but hardly anyone was interested
in settling this region for the first twenty years. Founded in 1876,
Callahan City was originally a waterhole on the Western Cattle Trail
to Dodge City. As Yogi Berra might have said: “It’s future was ahead
of it.”
Stores appeared to supply traildrivers, and with the arrival of settlers,
they started stocking items for permanent residents.
The first Callahan County Commissioners Court was held here in July
of 1877, but despite having the advantage of it’s name – it lost county
seat status to Belle
Plain in December that same year.
Belle Plain hardly had time to gloat – they lost their county seat
status to Baird a short time
later when the Texas and Pacific Railroad came through, bypassing
both towns.
A cemetery (shown on county maps) is now all that remains of Callahan
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